Bear Wilner-Nugent
@saltlick.bsky.social
Lawyer (criminal defense, appeals, civil and administrative litigation), festival operations volunteer, musician, outdoorsbear, cook, lover, dad.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
You can find my professional contact information at https://bwnlaw.com.
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On this important day of mobilization, don't be scared off by self-appointed experts giving you a bunch of rules for how to protest or what not to do. The most important thing we need is more people in the streets, period. Our safety comes from numbers. As a criminal defense lawyer for decades...
Me too.
Periodic reminder that if you believe the "long covid" truthers you should block me, I really don't have time for that shit
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Me too.
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Sometimes people miss the forest for the trees because they really fucking love being in the forest.
November 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sometimes people miss the forest for the trees because they really fucking love being in the forest.
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Lots of the replies and quotes* are like “oh this is about COVID melting everyone’s brains” or “the times are worse than ever before” and lol
*on the distraction website on the always-on pocket distraction machine
*on the distraction website on the always-on pocket distraction machine
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Lots of the replies and quotes* are like “oh this is about COVID melting everyone’s brains” or “the times are worse than ever before” and lol
*on the distraction website on the always-on pocket distraction machine
*on the distraction website on the always-on pocket distraction machine
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A reminder that I have an index of archived versions of every public-facing page on the FDA’s website from before the Trump Administrative fucked it all up:
acasignups.net/fda-website
acasignups.net/fda-website
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A reminder that I have an index of archived versions of every public-facing page on the FDA’s website from before the Trump Administrative fucked it all up:
acasignups.net/fda-website
acasignups.net/fda-website
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"[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"[D]ooming is itself a liberation from the burden of choice. If everything is ruined forever, if your allies have already forsaken you, if the battle is already lost, you aren't responsible for your choices. They can't affect the outcome. You're free." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
This, and be aware that OP is generally not a reliable source.
Neither is particularly likely compared to "this guy was cracked by trauma and then told he or some of his friends were going to be deported, and he broke"
What's more logical?
That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?
Or
That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
That the CIA directed one of its assets to perform the perfect false flag?
Or
That a jihadist played the long game by working with the CIA in Afghanistan to gain legal access to the country and then travel 3,000 miles to enact his plan of attacking National Guard soldiers?
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This, and be aware that OP is generally not a reliable source.
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This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is genuinely big news. Shldnt be but is. Republicans are challenging Trump now because he seems weak. No one wantst to back a weak horse. Trump looks like the weak horse.
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I'd remind folks that Stephen Miller (which that post was) says lots of shit and the vast majority of it doesn't even start to happen.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I'd remind folks that Stephen Miller (which that post was) says lots of shit and the vast majority of it doesn't even start to happen.
When even Seth Moulton is saying this, I am heartened for our return to power.
Strong message from Congressman Moulton:
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
“Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
When even Seth Moulton is saying this, I am heartened for our return to power.
This is exclusively the fault of Republicans.
The magnitude of the change over time is striking.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is exclusively the fault of Republicans.
The voters delivered that razor-thin majority and I’m dubious that any more ambitious or coherent legislation could have resulted. The solution isn’t to bash those Democrats, it’s to elect more and better ones, starting in the primaries.
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The voters delivered that razor-thin majority and I’m dubious that any more ambitious or coherent legislation could have resulted. The solution isn’t to bash those Democrats, it’s to elect more and better ones, starting in the primaries.
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
The fundamental thing to understand about this administration is the president is a grumpy retiree. He has no interest in working anymore. Which leads to him being pissed that he is getting asked a question, pissed he has to show up and work, the scheming viziers running the show, etc..
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.
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The Republican Party must be destroyed
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The Republican Party must be destroyed
This turns out to completely be the shit.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This turns out to completely be the shit.
Earnest cosign. Four day weekends are deeply healing.
Thanksgiving has many lessons to teach us, perhaps the most important being that Thursday is the GOAT day of the week for a holiday and we should move every holiday on the calendar to Thursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Earnest cosign. Four day weekends are deeply healing.
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This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
Thanksgiving is problematic. Giving thanks is not. As someone who wants to remember the attempted genocide of indigenous people but also likes a reminder to practice gratitude, I like to use Indigenous People's Month to support (and be grateful for) indigenous creators. A partial list! /1
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is my yearly reminder that
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people.
B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates.
Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!
By the way, I’m a liberal, and this is the actual way American liberals think now. Slap down the lies about how hard we want to fight fascism, because it’s dramatically harder than you might ever believe. Liberalism is what won us WWII & this next year we’re going to demonstrate that all over again.
Remember, if someone works for CBP or ICE, they don’t deserve Thanksgiving, they don’t deserve Christmas, they don’t deserve family, they don’t deserve friends. Only unending punishment for the Trump regime’s thugs. Shut it all down.
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
By the way, I’m a liberal, and this is the actual way American liberals think now. Slap down the lies about how hard we want to fight fascism, because it’s dramatically harder than you might ever believe. Liberalism is what won us WWII & this next year we’re going to demonstrate that all over again.
Remember, if someone works for CBP or ICE, they don’t deserve Thanksgiving, they don’t deserve Christmas, they don’t deserve family, they don’t deserve friends. Only unending punishment for the Trump regime’s thugs. Shut it all down.
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Remember, if someone works for CBP or ICE, they don’t deserve Thanksgiving, they don’t deserve Christmas, they don’t deserve family, they don’t deserve friends. Only unending punishment for the Trump regime’s thugs. Shut it all down.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
For decades, there have been so many reasons to not buy Nike. The most important reason is that Nike is an objectively pro-fascist company thanks to its founder.
Yeah not cool at all. Says a lot about him.
Oregon’s richest man again donating record $$ to Republican candidates for state offices www.opb.org/article/2025...
November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For decades, there have been so many reasons to not buy Nike. The most important reason is that Nike is an objectively pro-fascist company thanks to its founder.
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"cultural appropriation" discourse in the realm of linguistics is actually just a way for upper middle class people to police one anothers' speech
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
Entire languages are born from the "bastardisation" of lects of different prestiges. Something twigs me wrong about the way we weight morally things like e.g. people in regular contact with an ethnic lect adopting features of that lect into their own speech, when that's just how we language
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"cultural appropriation" discourse in the realm of linguistics is actually just a way for upper middle class people to police one anothers' speech
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
(if you're on this site,you count as culturally upper middle class)
A lot of people post the way they do about AI because it gives them cool points. Wanting to be in the club is a great motivator to not analyze things critically and in detail. So we get zombie lies instead of more penetrating, weighty thought about what details are good & bad & what is to be done.
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A lot of people post the way they do about AI because it gives them cool points. Wanting to be in the club is a great motivator to not analyze things critically and in detail. So we get zombie lies instead of more penetrating, weighty thought about what details are good & bad & what is to be done.
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Using one’s perfectly organic human brain to recite cant and dogma about technology is as boring and offputting as any LLM crap you can imagine. I say this as a criminal defense lawyer who doesn’t work with AI in any way — not at my job, not for fun. I just can’t stand the groupthink. More nuance!
Jeeeez look at these numbers.
Another point about this is that this kind of performance would make neighboring TN-05, which is Trump+18 and has a much more scandal-plagued GOP congressman, especially vulnerable to flip.
Emerson poll | 11/22-11/24 LV
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jeeeez look at these numbers.